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title: As of 2016, there was a ratio of 20 healthcare workers for every 10,… — Sanaa · tree and pragmatics
description: As of 2016, there was a ratio of 20 healthcare workers for every 10,000 people; this ratio had decreased to 14 by 2018, well below the World Health Organization's recommended minimum of 22 health staff per 10,000 people. Who acts: ratio. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sanaa» with its dependency tree and
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# Sanaa, sentence 376

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From Wikipedia, [«Sanaa»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanaa), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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As of 2016, there was a ratio of 20 healthcare workers for every 10,000 people; this ratio had decreased to 14 by 2018, well below the World Health Organization's recommended minimum of 22 health staff per 10,000 people.

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**Who acts:** ratio · **What happens:** be, decrease, recommend · **To what, where:** ratio

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Sanaa». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ratio), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Sanaa:376
# text = As of 2016, there was a ratio of 20 healthcare workers for every 10,000 people; this ratio had decreased to 14 by 2018, well below the World Health Organization's recommended minimum of 22 health staff per 10,000 people.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	3	case	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	2016	2016	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	ratio	ratio	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
11	healthcare	healthcare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
15	10,000	10000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	ratio	ratio	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	decreased	decrease	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	14	14	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	obl	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	2018	2018	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
27	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	35	advmod	_	_
28	below	below	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	Health	Health	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	Organization	Organization	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	's	's	PART	POS	_	32	case	_	_
34	recommended	recommend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	amod	_	_
35	minimum	minimum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	parataxis	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	22	22	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	39	nummod	_	_
38	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	staff	staff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
40	per	per	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	10,000	10000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	42	nummod	_	_
42	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a ratio of 20 healthcare workers for every 10,000 people |  |  | there |  | as 2016 | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **decrease** | past · perfect · passive | a ratio of 20 healthcare workers for every 10,000 people *not said here* | this ratio |  |  |  | to 14 *result*; by 2018; the Health Organization's recommended minimum of 22 health staff per 10,000 people *parataxis* | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.extent PP.initial\_state PP.result»: subject=Patient to 14=Result by 2018=Extent |
| 3 | **recommend** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Sanaa», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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